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SCT screening support service available for expert advice

Posted by: Michelle Rugless, Posted on: 29 September 2021 - Categories: NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme

The Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Support Service in Oxford provides expert technical and scientific support to screening services.

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PHE Screening Helpdesk – Using information to improve service

Posted by: Andrianna Davis, Posted on: 7 January 2020 - Categories: General information
The PHE Screening helpdesk team

The Screening helpdesk answers thousands of queries. It uses data gathered from this to help improve our services.

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Update for primary care on cervical screening campaign

Posted by: Professor Anne Mackie, Posted on: 21 March 2019 - Categories: NHS Cervical Screening Programme
A poster campaign with the words 'cervical screening can stop cancer before it starts', with a post it note saying 'remember to book cervical screening!'

A reminder for primary care colleagues about Public Health England's current cervical screening campaign and information about how to access women's screening results (which are not available from the PHE Screening helpdesk).

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Our big day out in the world of an antenatal screening lab

Posted by: Katy Parker, Posted on: 5 November 2018 - Categories: NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme, NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme, NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme

PHE Screening helpdesk advisor Katy Parker describes her factfinding visit to an antenatal screening laboratory in Bolton.

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Have you contacted the screening helpdesk? Let us know how we’re doing

Posted by: Andrianna Davis, Posted on: 1 February 2017 - Categories: General information

If you’ve contacted the PHE Screening helpdesk recently, you may have noticed and even completed, our latest user survey.

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PHE Screening helpdesk: the front door for screening enquiries

Posted by: Andrianna Davis, Posted on: 12 August 2016 - Categories: General information

Here at the PHE Screening helpdesk we aim to provide information and support to stakeholders and users of all our screening services.

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We’re calling a favour from our helpdesk callers (and from those who have emailed us)

Posted by: Andrianna Davis, Posted on: 1 March 2016 - Categories: General information

If you’ve contacted the screening helpdesk recently, you may have noticed, and you may have even completed, our user survey.

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Got a screening question?

Posted by: Andrianna Davis, Posted on: 29 September 2015 - Categories: General information

If you want to know something about the national NHS Screening Programmes, the screening helpdesk is there to help. Enquiries to the helpdesk have increased by almost half, from 971 to 1,440 in the last year - especially since taking …

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The PHE Screening team

Public Health England (PHE) existed to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. It closed on 30 September 2021 and this blog is no longer updated.

Find out more about the implications for health screening in our Changes ahead for the national screening system blog article.

If you want to stay in touch with screening evidence and policy news, you can subscribe to the UK National Screening Committee blog.

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